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One of 27 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Dickens Round Barn
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 27882 473rd Ave., Worthing, 57077
- When was it listed? March 2019
- Category. building
- Also known as. South Dakota's Round and Polygonal Barns and Pavilions MPS
- Township. La Valley township
- National Register reference number. 100003439 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
90 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Dickens Round Barn between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,023 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CR-115 / 280TH |
| 4 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lincoln County | US HWY 115/279 |
| 3 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SD HWY 15 & 278 |
| 27 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | I-29 MILE 61 |
| 24 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WORTHING |
| 24 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TOWER |
| 1 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MM 57 |
| 5 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sioux Falls Fire Department | I229 AND MINNESOTA |
Storms near this property
37 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Worthing, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | $250,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused extensive damage on a new car lot by blasting vehicles with sand and dust, breaking glass and destroying finishes. The winds also caused tree damage and minor building damage. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | $25,000 | Several power poles were snapped by thunderstorm winds. Property damage costs are a rough estimate. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | $15,000 | Two semi-trucks were flipped by thunderstorm wind gusts a little south of Exit 68 on Interstate 29. Property damage costs are a rough estimate. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | $15,000 | A semi truck and trailer was tipped over along with damage to two other vehicles. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | $10,000 | Metal roof pieces from a house were blown across the county road to the east. Several trees were gnarled with limbs down. Property damage costs are a rough estimate. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | $10,000 | A car dealership sign was destroyed by thunderstorm wind gusts. Property damage costs are a rough estimate. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | $5,000 | The roof and doors to a shed were damaged. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | $1,000 | Limbs up to 3 inches in diameter were taken down. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Worthing | - | Hail up to quarter size fell along U.S. Highway 18 near Minnesota Avenue. |
| June 2024 | Flood | Worthing | - | Beaver Creek at Canton rose above flood stage the evening of June 20th, cresting around 10.46 feet above flood stage (1257.46 feet) on June 22nd. This crest is in the Major Stage. The creek then fell below flood stage on the morning of June 27th. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for Lincoln County. |
| June 2022 | Flood | Worthing | - | Locally heavy rainfall pushed Beaver Creek at Canton (gage site BCCS2) above minor flood stage for a brief time on June 13, with a crest at 0.31 feet above flood stage. A minor amount of agricultural land was flooded. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Worthing | - | A tornado spun up 4 miles northeast of Worthing, one-half mile north of 278th Street just east of 475th Avenue. The tornado tracked northeast for a little over a mile before it lifted 4 miles south of Harrisburg, just southwest of the intersection of 277th Street and 476th Avenue. Damage was limited to crops with the path defined on Sentinel satellite imagery. The average path width was 20 yards. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped several 6 to 12 inch diameter limbs. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Worthing | - | This tornado formed 2 miles north-northwest of Worthing, around one-half mile east of Interstate 29 and north of 278th Street. The tornado tracked northeast and then east-northeast for around one and one-half miles across open farmland and lifted 3 miles north-northeast of Worthing just south of 277th Street. The average path width, identified by crop damage in Sentinel satellite imagery, was 20 yards. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Worthing | - | Hail was accompanied by estimated 60 mph wind gusts. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | - | Thunderstorm winds, accompanied by hail, caused minor tree damage. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Worthing | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| March 2004 | Hail | Worthing | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Worthing | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Worthing | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Worthing | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a dead tree uprooted. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Worthing | - | Large hail covered the ground. The hail caused damage to corn and soybean crops, but the amount of crop damage was not known. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Worthing | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Worthing | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
5 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Anthon W. Elster House | 2.9 miles | 2010 |
 | Harney Hospital | 7.6 miles | 1984 |
 | John Isakson House | 7.7 miles | 1984 |
 | Magnus O. Bergstrom House | 7.8 miles | 1994 |
 | Byrnes House | 7.9 miles | 2009 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003439 in Record Group 79. |
| Lincoln County | All 27 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.